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CV

Sections

Education
Research Interests
Major Awards and Grants
Publications
Teaching Experience
Research Experience
Selected Presentations
Mentoring
Service
Additional Academic Training
Other Funding and Awards
Reviewer
Professional Memberships

Easton R. White
Research Associate
Department of Biology, University of Vermont
63 Carrigan Drive, 358 Jeffords Hall, Burlington, VT 05405-0086 USA
Easton.White@uvm.edu | https://eastonwhite.github.io/

Education


2018 Ph.D. in Population Biology University of California, Davis
2013 B.S. in Biology, Minor Mathematics Arizona State University
2010 Associate of Science Scottsdale Community College

Research Interests


Quantitative ecology, coupled natural-human systems, ecosystem management, conservation science, marine ecology, fisheries, protected areas, decision theory, species monitoring, biology education, active learning

Major Awards and Grants


In review PI: PADI Foundation Grant: Comparison of approaches to estimate underwater biodiversity
2019-2024 (CO-PIs) Baker-Medard Merrill, White Easton R., and Elizabeth Fairchild. Socio-Ecological Feedbacks of Marine Protected Areas: Dynamics of Small-Scale Fishing Communities and Inshore Marine Ecosystems. National Science Foundation CNH2: Dynamics of Integrated Socio-Environmental Systems. $602,320
2018 Graduate Teaching Award, University of California, Davis
2017-2018 Professor for the Future fellow
2014-2017 National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellow
2013-2014 Canada Fulbright Awardee

Publications


Google Scholar link ResearchGate link
*Indicates undergraduate or graduate student mentee

Published

11 White, Easton R.,*Kyle Cox, Brett Melbourne, and Alan Hastings. 2019. Ecological management depends strongly on stochasticity: an experimental test. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. PDF PDF Github
10 Rodriguez-Caro, Roberto C., Thorsten Wiegand, Easton R. White, Ana Sanz-Aguilar, Andres Gimenez, Eva Gracia, and Jose D. Anadon. 2019. A low cost approach to estimate demographic rates using inverse modelling. Biological Conservation. PDF PDF
9 Fournier, Auriel, Easton R. White, and Stephen Heard. 2019. Site-selection bias can drive apparent population declines in long-term studies. Conservation Biology. PDF PDF Github
8 White, Easton R. 2019. Minimum time required to detect population trends: the need for long-term monitoring programs. BioScience. Editors’ Choice article PDF PDF Github
7 White, Easton R. and Andrew T. Smith. 2018. The role of spatial structure in the collapse of regional metapopulations. Ecology 99(2): 2815-2822. PDF PDF Github
6 White, Easton R. Mark C. Myers, Joanna Mills Flemming, and Julia K. Baum. 2015. Shifting elasmobranch community assemblage at Cocos Island - an isolated marine protected area. Conservation Biology 29(4): 1186-1197. PDF PDF Github
5 White, Easton R. John D. Nagy, and Samuel H. Gruber. 2014. Modeling the population dynamics of lemon sharks. Biology Direct 9(1): 1-23. PDF PDF Github
4 Kessel S. T., Chapman D. D., Franks B. R., Gedamke T., Gruber S. H., Newman J. M., White E. R. and Perkins R. G. 2014. Predictable temperature regulated residency, movement and migration in a large, highly-mobile marine predator. Marine Ecology Progress Series 514. PDF PDF
3 Robinson, James P.W., Easton R. White, Logan D. Wiwchar, Danielle C. Claar, Justin P. Suraci, Julia K. Baum. 2014. The limitations of diversity metrics in directing marine global marine conservation. Marine Policy 48:123-125. PDF PDF Github
2 Gerber, Leah R. and Easton R. White. 2014. Two-sex matrix models in assessing population viability: when do male dynamics matter? Journal of Applied Ecology 51(1): 270-278. PDF PDF
1 Senko, Jesse, Easton R. White, Sellina S. Heppell, and Leah R. Gerber. 2014. A comparison of fishery management strategies for mitigating bycatch of vulnerable marine megafauna species. Animal Conservation 17(1): 5-18. PDF PDF

In the pipeline (preprint and/or in review)

4 White, Easton R. and Christie A. Bahlai. Experimenting with the Past to Improve Environmental Monitoring Programs. EcoEvoRxiv. In review. PDF
3 White, Easton R., Marissa L. Baskett, and Alan Hastings. Catastrophes, connectivity, and Allee effects in the design of marine reserve networks. bioRxiv. In review. PDF
2 White, Easton R., Kalle Parvinen, and Ulf Dieckmann. Environmental variability and phenology evolution: impacts of climate change and spring onset on reproductive timing in a small mammal. PeerJ Preprints 6:e27435v1. PDF
1 White, Easton R. and Alan Hastings. Seasonality in ecology: Progress and prospects in theory. PeerJ Preprints 6:e27235v1. In revision. PDF

Teaching Experience

University of Vermont
2019 Instructor, Foundations of Quantitative Reasoning (BIO381, PhD-level).
University of California, Davis
2017-2018 Instructor, BIS2B Ecology and Evolution Bridge Program (Bootcamp), Biology Undergraduate Scholars Program
2018 Instructor, Science Education and Outreach.
2018 Instructor, Building your personal baloney detection kit, First Year Seminar program
2017 Guest Lecturer, Mathematical methods in population biology (graduate-level PBG231)
Software Carpentry
2014-2019 Instructor for nine two-day workshops in North America (R, shell, and version control)
University of Victoria
2014 Teaching Assistant, Advanced Ecology (BIO470)

Research Experience

2019-2024 PI on coupled socio-ecological systems project focused on Madagascar coral reef fisheries
2014-2018 Graduate Research and Teaching Assistant, University of California, Davis, Advisor: Alan Hastings
2016 Intern, Young Scientist Summer Program, Institute for Applied Systems Analysis, Vienna, Austria
2013-2014 Canada Fulbright Awardee, University of Victoria, Canada, Advisor: Julia Baum
2012-2013 Researcher, Gerber Lab: Marine Population Biology, Arizona State University, Advisor: Leah Gerber
2009-2013 Researcher, SCC/ASU Evolutionary Dynamics Laboratory, Advisor: John Nagy
2011-2012 Intern, Bimini Biological Field Station, Bimini, Bahamas, Supervisor: Samuel Gruber

Selected Presentations


*Indicates undergraduate mentee

2020 Shifting elasmobranch community assemblage within the Cocos Island marine protected area. Middlebury College, Middlebury, VT.
2019 Managing populations in a changing world. Middlebury College, Middlebury, VT.
2019 Ecology and conservation in an uncertain world. Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY.
2019 Site-selection bias and species monitoring programs. Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada.
2019 Experimenting with the past to improve species monitoring programs. CSEE Meeting, Fredericton, NB, Canada.
2019 Teaching case study: Socio-ecological modeling of coral reef fisheries. National Socio-Environmental Synthesis Center, Annapolis, MD.
2019 Interdisciplinary summer bridge programs to improve student outcomes. Biology Education Gordon Conference, Bates College, Lewiston, ME.
2019 Managing populations in a changing world. Biology Department Seminar Series, University of Vermont, Burlington, VT.
2019 *Rappel, Charlotte and Easton R. White. Spatial dynamics and extinction risk of a small mammal population. University of California Undergraduate Research Conference.
2019 *Kono, Erica, Schweibold, Reece, and Easton R. White. Sex-biased dispersal in a model invasive species. University of California Undergraduate Research Conference.
2018 Ecological and evolutionary dynamics in an increasingly variable world. Center for Population Biology Seminar Series, University of California, Davis, CA.
2018 Designing marine protected areas for catastrophic events. Canadian Society for Ecology and Evolution, University of Guelph, Guelph, ON.
2018 Minimum time required to detect populations trends. Ecological Society of America Annual Meeting, New Orleans, LA.
2016 Metapopulation dynamics and extinction in the American pika. Mathematics of Planet Earth group, Society for Industrial and Applied Math, Philadelphia, PA.
2016 Evolution of reproductive timing in variable environments. Young Scientist Summer Program. International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis, Vienna, Austria.
2016 Spatial structure and stochasticity in small mammal communities. University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS.
2016 The inevitable partial collapse of an American pika metapopulation. Ecological Society of America. Baltimore, Maryland.
2015 Sharks, math, and other things. Center for Marine Science, University of California, Davis, CA.

Mentoring

University of Vermont
Fall 2019 - Present Amanda Jones, Independent Research Project
University of California, Davis
Summer 2018 - Spring 2019 Erica Kono, Independent Research Project
Summer 2018 - Spring 2019 Reece Schweibold, Independent Research Project
Summer 2018 - Spring 2019 Charlotte Rappel, Independent Research Project
Spring 2018 - Summer 2018 Ivan Beas, Honors Thesis
Spring 2017 - Summer 2018 Kyle Cox, Contributed to research project and publication
Winter 2016 - Summer 2016 Jeni Boyer, Independent Research Project
Winter 2016 - Summer 2016 Annie Maliguine, Independent Research Project
University of Victoria
Fall 2013 - Winter 2014 Mitra Nikoo, Contributed to research project
Winter 2014 Jessica Holden, Contributed to research project
Winter 2014 Michael Sullivan, Contributed to research project
Scottsdale Community College
Spring 2012 - Spring 2013 Andrew Nemecek, Independent Research Project
Spring 2012 - Spring 2013 Sabrina Jones, Independent Research Project

Service


2018- Leadership Team, National Science Foundation PhD traineeship, University of Vermont
2018- Instructor, computational skills workshops, Software Carpentry
2019 Organizer, Research Derby Event, University of Vermont
2016-2018 Founder, Population Biology Diversity Committee, University of California, Davis
2017-2018 Instructor, Skype a Scientist program, University of California, Davis
2015 Volunteer tutor, STEM Cafe , University of California, Davis
2012-2014 Cofounder and educator, Mathematics without Boundaries, Arizona State University

Additional Academic Training


2017-2018 Professors for the Future Program, University of California, Davis
2018 University Ethics and Professionalism
2017 Seminar on College Teaching
2017 Center for Educational Excellence Workshop Series
2015-2018 Graduate Teaching Community Workshop Series
2014 Software Carpentry Instructor Course
2014 Mathematics Teaching Workshop, University of Victoria

Other Funding and Awards


2014-2019 Various Software Carpentry travel awards
2019 Canadian Institute for Ecology and Evolution honorarium ($1,200)
2018 UC Davis Graduate Teaching Award ($500)
2018 UC Davis Graduate Studies Travel Grant ($1,000)
2018 Population Biology Travel Grant ($800)
2016 SIAM Travel Grant ($650)
2016 Population Biology Research Grant ($1,666)
2016 National Academy of Science Travel Grant ($4,400)
2015 Mathematical Biosciences Institute traval grant ($750)
2014 NSF Travel Award ($1,700)
2014 Fulbright student mobility award ($800)
2013 NSF Travel Award ($1,300)
2013 Outstanding Graduating Senior ($500)
2010-2012 All-Arizona Academic Team Tuition Waiver ($20,000)

Reviewer


Bulletin of Mathematical Biology, Communications Biology, Ecography, Ecological Modelling, Ecology, Ecology Letters, Environmental Monitoring and Assessment, Journal of Applied Ecology, PeerJ, PLoSONE, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, NOAA Grant Review, Science, Theoretical Ecology

Professional Memberships


American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
Canadian Society for Ecology and Evolution (CSEE)
Ecological Society of America (ESA)
Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM)
Society for Mathematical Biology (SMB)
Society for the Advancement of Biology Education Research (SABER)